State media control influences large language models | Nature
10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...” evidence ↗
Policy & governance
2 expertsRules, institutions and accountability.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
Research & technical analysis
2 expertsEvidence, methods and technical implications.
“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”
Building & implementation
1 expertHow teams are shipping and applying it.
“Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s41...”